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CAN BUILD RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAINS? We bring forward exclusive insights on absorbing IoT from Burak Ertuna, CIO & VP BPO – MEA region at DHL Global
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oT is no longer an axiom in the logistics sector. Innovations in cloud data storage, artificial intelligence, and cellular networks collectively drive a more connected experience in transport and logistics by enabling the monitoring of vehicles, improving security, and enhancing delivery time. These advances also ensure proper storage of temperature-sensitive goods and streamline communications - this 16 | LOGISTICS NEWS ME | NOVEMBER 2022
implies comprehensive benefits for logistics providers, generating actionable insights that drive transformation and new solutions. IoT’s vast potential to connect anything to the internet can accelerate data-driven logistics. Adapting these innovations into logistics ecosystems can give a company clear-cut transparency in its multiple operations, leading to a seamless inventory organization.
Everyday objects can now send, receive, process, and store information and thus actively participate in logistics processes, from understanding customer needs in different markets to responding to them in real time. This has accelerated the connected experience in transport and logistics – enabling diversification for multinational businesses.Furthermore, IoT has particularly aided a vital role in the pandemic, where billions of highly temperature-sensitive vaccines were shipped worldwide. DHL used its connected network to safely deliver over 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to 160 countries. Here, Burak Ertuna, CIO & VP BPO – MEA region at DHL Global, sheds light on leveraging connected experiences in logistics… How to make IoT work for you IoT in logistics is an ecosystem that harnesses traditionally unconnected assets WWW.CBNME.COM
